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Chris Chickadel
Senior Principal Oceanographer Affiliate Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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- Air-Sea Exchange—gas and heat, biogeochemical cycling, rainfall
- Coastal—rivers, tidal flats, nearshore
- Ocean/Atmosphere—climate change, ocean circulation, atmospheric rolls, hurricanes
- Sensors—microwave, infrared, laser, hydrophone, dissolved gas
- Waves—wave breaking, internal waves
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Our remote sensing tools span a wide range of scales — from satellite remote sensing, to field experiments using surface and airborne platforms, and to laboratory experiments in wave tanks. Remote sensing instruments used include electro-optical sensors (microwave, infrared, and laser) and acoustic sensors (sonars and hydrophones).
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Mapping Underwater Turbulence with Sound |
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Riding Waves to Generate Electricity |
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A recently published paper details the flow conditions around a full-scale hydrokinetic river turbine.
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Around the Americas — One Island One Ocean
Andy Jessup, Harry Stern, Amanda Labrado, Jim Thomson
5 May 2025
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Arctic PISCES
Jim Thomson, Jason Gobat, Craig Lee, Bonnie Light, Axel Schweiger
14 April 2025
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First Look at PACE Ocean Color Observations
Ali Chase
26 April 2024
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Seawater synergy
DEIXIS Magazine
Wudan Yan
1 November 2025
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3 reasons why the Pacific Ocean tsunami fizzled before reaching WA
The Seattle Times
Conrad Swanson
30 July 2025
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How to see bioluminescence in Seattle's waterways
Seattle Met
Taylor McKenzie Gerlach
12 June 2025
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A novel approach to estimate non-algal particle absorption for improved retrieval of pigment concentrations in coastal waters
Costanzo, M., V.E. Brando, E. Boss, A. Chase, and D. Doxaran
17 July 2026
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Rapid changes in ocean surface waves across the eye of Hurricane Milton (2024)
Thomson, J., J. Davis, I. Houghton, B.W. Barr, C. Hegermiller, M. Mejia, J. Moskaitis, E.J. Thompson
16 July 2026
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Training-domain gaps in data-driven ocean color algorithms
Gray, P.C., C.B. Demeaux, A. Chase, R. Frouin, and E.S. Boss
16 June 2026
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